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Speaker 1: On the afternoon of January twenty second, twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 1: an elderly woman named Janet Lee sat in front of
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Speaker 1: her computer in an office on the second floor of
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Speaker 1: her home in Newcastle, England. She was going over some
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Speaker 1: recent bank statements, but it was kind of hard. She
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Speaker 1: was distracted because all she could hear was her boyfriend
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Speaker 1: downstairs talking to someone. So Janet's boyfriend was a guy
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Speaker 1: named Richard O'Connell, and he and Janet had been together
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Speaker 1: for about twenty years now. Despite not officially being married,
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Speaker 1: they sort of functioned like a married couple. They lived together,
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Speaker 1: you know, they shared everything. In fact, Janet had even
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Speaker 1: written Richard into her will. Janet thought her and Richard
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Speaker 1: would be together forever. I mean, clearly, if you're writing
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Speaker 1: him into your will. And she assumed that that feeling
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Speaker 1: was reciprocated that Richard also felt like they were together forever.
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Speaker 1: But lately their relationship had gotten pretty rocky, and in fact,
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Speaker 1: both of them had begun openly talking about the possibility
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Speaker 1: that they might need to break up. Now, nothing was
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Speaker 1: set in stone, and by no means were they destined
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Speaker 1: for a breakup, but it was suddenly, you know, a possibility,
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Speaker 1: and that was really hard for Janet to deal with.
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Speaker 1: And so as Janet sat upstairs trying to do these
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Speaker 1: bank statements, but you know, getting completely sidetracked just by
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Speaker 1: the sound of Richard's voice. You know, part of the
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Speaker 1: reason that was so distracting is, you know, Richard was
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Speaker 1: all she could think about. What would happen if they
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Speaker 1: broke up, what would her life look like? And so
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Speaker 1: before long, you know, her mind was kind of wandering,
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Speaker 1: and no longer was at the bank statements. It was
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Speaker 1: what does the future hold for me? It seems so uncertain.
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Speaker 1: And so as Janet is having this moment upstairs, she
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Speaker 1: suddenly hears Richard start yelling downstairs, and at first it
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Speaker 1: kind of sounded like maybe he was yelling at the
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Speaker 1: person he had been talking to, But the more Janet listened,
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Speaker 1: she could tell it really wasn't that he was yelling
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Speaker 1: as much as he was screaming, like he was screaming
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Speaker 1: out in pain or something. And so Janet got out
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Speaker 1: of her chair and ran downstairs to see what was
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Speaker 1: going on. And when she did, she looked towards the
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Speaker 1: front door, and she saw there was this man who
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Speaker 1: she didn't recognize, but he looked weirdly familiar to her.
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Speaker 1: He was wearing a white lab coat, his back was
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Speaker 1: to her, and he was walking out the front door.
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Speaker 1: And before she could even begin to process who this
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Speaker 1: guy was and what he was doing here, she heard
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Speaker 1: the sound of Richard again kind of calling out in pain,
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Speaker 1: less loudly this time, but definitely in real pain. Then
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Speaker 1: she turned and sure enough, there was Richard in the
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Speaker 1: living room clutching his shoulder and grimacing like something was
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Speaker 1: really hurting him. And so Janet she walked over to
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Speaker 1: him and she's like, what's going on, Like what's wrong
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Speaker 1: with you? And who was that guy? And like, tell
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Speaker 1: me what's happening here? And so Richard, through gritted teeth,
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Speaker 1: would tell her that he had just gotten a COVID
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Speaker 1: vaccine shot and it really hurt, and that guy who
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Speaker 1: had just given it to him was a guy from NHS,
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Speaker 1: the National Health Service, and he just came by to
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Speaker 1: administer the shot. And so Janet heard what he said,
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't really computing, like why aren't you getting
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Speaker 1: the shot done at the doctor's office, Why are you
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Speaker 1: having somebody come here to administer It's that's unusual. But
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Speaker 1: you know, as she was thinking about this, she could
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Speaker 1: clearly see that what was really important right now was
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Speaker 1: that Richard was in agonizing pain. I mean, he was
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Speaker 1: holding his arm and kind of rocking back and forth, moaning.
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Speaker 1: Clearly he was having some sort of reaction to the shot.
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Speaker 1: And so she forgot about the weirdness around why he
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Speaker 1: got the shot and how he got the shot, and
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Speaker 1: said to him, like, hey, do you want to go
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Speaker 1: to the hospital.
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Speaker 2: I can drive you.
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Speaker 1: And at this Richard kind of sat up straight and
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Speaker 1: took a deep breath, clearly trying to calm himself down.
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Speaker 1: And even though obviously his shoulders still hurt from the shot,
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Speaker 1: he said to Janet that, you know, the guy from
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Speaker 1: the NHS told me this was normal. There's pain associated
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Speaker 1: with this particular shot, and it would just go away
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Speaker 1: on its own, and so I'm just going to wait
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Speaker 1: and let this thing fade. At this point, Janet was
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Speaker 1: still worried about Richard, but you know, he seemed pretty
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Speaker 1: confident that this was not a big deal, and so
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Speaker 1: she decided she would simply follow his lead. And she said, okay,
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Speaker 1: you know, if that's what you want to do, and
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Speaker 1: then she turned and she went upstairs and continued trying
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Speaker 1: to do her bank statements. But two days later, Janet
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Speaker 1: did end up driving Richard to the hospital because over
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Speaker 1: those forty eight hours since Richard got that COVID shot,
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Speaker 1: the spot on his arm the injection site had turned
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Speaker 1: red and began to blister and bleed, and then eventually
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Speaker 1: it turned and so at that point they went to
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Speaker 1: the er hospital. Doctors would diagnose Richard with something called
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Speaker 1: necrotizing fasciitis, which is a bacterial infection more commonly known
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Speaker 1: as flesh eating disease. Basically, the skin and muscle of
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Speaker 1: Richard's arm was dying and rotting, but from the inside out.
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Speaker 1: The doctors told Richard he would have to have emergency
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Speaker 1: surgery to remove the rotting flesh to stop the spread
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Speaker 1: of this infection. But before they could even do that,
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Speaker 1: they needed to figure out how this infection had even begun.
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Speaker 2: And so at this point, Richard began.
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Speaker 1: Telling the doctors all about how you two days earlier,
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Speaker 1: he'd gotten his COVID shot and pretty much right away
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Speaker 1: it had been so painful, and then it blistered and
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Speaker 1: bled and turned black. And then also over the course
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Speaker 1: of this discussion that Janet is listening to as well,
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Speaker 1: Richard began describing the NHS guy who had actually come
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Speaker 1: to his house. Now, remember, Janet had only seen this
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Speaker 1: guy for a brief second when she had run downstairs.
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Speaker 1: She had seen him walking out the front door. She
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Speaker 1: just saw the white lab coat, but something about him
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Speaker 1: seemed weirdly familiar, but she kind of put that thought
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Speaker 1: out of her mind. But now as she's listening to,
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Speaker 1: Richard described this NHS guy with a little more detail
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Speaker 1: this time. Suddenly something clicked. She realized she knew why
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Speaker 1: this guy seemed so familiar, and this realization filled her
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Speaker 1: with horror. It would turn out that NHS nurse was
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Speaker 1: not really an NHS nurse. Instead, they were a man
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Speaker 1: that both Janet and Richard knew very well.
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Speaker 2: However, they were.
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Speaker 1: Extremely well disguised, and so Janet and Richard did not
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Speaker 1: recognize them. This man's name was Thomas Kwan, and Thomas,
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Speaker 1: after coming inside their home, did not inject Richard with
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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen vaccine. Instead, he injected Richard with a deadly
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Speaker 1: pesticide called iodomathane. That pesticide immediately caused that excruciating pain
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Speaker 1: that Richard was feeling that caused him to scream out
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Speaker 1: and ultimately killed and began to rot away the flesh
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Speaker 1: in his own It would turn out Thomas Kwan was
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Speaker 1: Janet's son, and he was furious at her for putting
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Speaker 1: Richard in her will and allowing Richard to get her
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Speaker 1: house when she died, and so he decided he would
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Speaker 1: basically inject poison into Richard, killing Richard to secure the
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Speaker 1: house for himself. But Richard would survive the ordeal, he
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Speaker 1: would have to undergo several pretty intense surgeries, but he
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Speaker 1: ended up being okay. As for Thomas, he was arrested
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Speaker 1: and convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to thirty one
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Speaker 1: On a Sunday afternoon in August of twenty fourteen, a
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Speaker 1: twenty four year old tourist who we're gonna call Angela Lyons,
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Speaker 1: drove a rented moped were a busy street in Vietnam.
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Speaker 1: Angela had come here about a week earlier from Scotland,
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Speaker 1: where she lived, and so far the trip had been great.
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Speaker 1: She'd been going to nightclubs and partying and eating local
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Speaker 1: food and swimming in local rivers. I mean, all in all,
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Speaker 1: she was having a blast. And now she was just
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Speaker 1: cruising slowly on her moped, looking at all the shops
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Speaker 1: around her and kind of taking in the scenery. And
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Speaker 1: at some point, as she was driving, she turned her
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Speaker 1: head and then she felt her moped hit something really hard,
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Speaker 1: and she actually fell off her bike onto the ground.
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Speaker 1: She hit her head pretty hard, but luckily she was
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Speaker 1: wearing a helmet, and so she was able to stand
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Speaker 1: up and kind of assessed that she was physically going
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Speaker 1: to be okay. And she looked and saw what she
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Speaker 1: had run into, and it was actually another moped and fortunately,
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Speaker 1: you know, the crash was kind of low speed, and
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Speaker 1: so the other moped driver clearly was physically okay as well,
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Speaker 1: and you know, their mopeds.
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Speaker 2: Were not actually damaged at all.
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Speaker 1: And so after she said she was sorry, and the
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Speaker 1: two kind of just acknowledged that they were just going
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Speaker 1: to go their separate ways. The other moped driver hopped
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Speaker 1: back on their moped and drove off, and Angela just
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Speaker 1: make sure she really was okay here, because again, you know,
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Speaker 1: she hit her head pretty hard on the concrete, and
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Speaker 1: so Angela she took off her helmet and kind of
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Speaker 1: felt around her scalp, and sure enough, she felt a
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Speaker 1: little bump on her head from where she'd hit the ground,
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Speaker 1: but other than that, she seemed fine.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Because it was a head injury, albeit a small one,
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Speaker 1: Angela did consider just going to the hospital just to
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Speaker 1: be sure.
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Speaker 2: But you know, as she.
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Speaker 1: Felt it a couple more times, She's like, you know what,
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Speaker 1: it's pretty small.
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Speaker 2: This is not a big deal.
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Speaker 1: I'm okay, And so she put her helmet back on,
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Speaker 1: got on her moped and went on about her business.
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Speaker 1: About a week later, Angela was back home in Glasgow, Scotland,
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Speaker 1: and she was inside of her doctor's office about to
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Speaker 1: be examined. Following that moped accident, Angela had stayed in
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Speaker 1: Vietnam for a few more days, and the whole time
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Speaker 1: she had checked that bump on her head every single day,
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Speaker 1: and it had gone away pretty quickly. However, when she
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Speaker 1: landed back home in Scotland, almost right away, she began
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Speaker 1: developing this kind of startling new symptom that she couldn't
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Speaker 1: help but feel must be connected to the moped accident.
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Speaker 1: And it made her really scared, and so she had
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Speaker 1: gone to the doctor. Her new symptom were these sudden
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Speaker 1: kind of extreme nosebleeds, and so she had made an
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Speaker 1: appointment to go see her doctor to figure out what
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Speaker 1: the heck was going on. And so finally Angela's doctor
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Speaker 1: came into the room and he would examine her, and
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Speaker 1: he would look at her nose and her head and
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Speaker 1: he would listen to her story about the moped, but
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Speaker 1: after he was done with the exam, he would tell
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Speaker 1: Angela that he did not think her nosebleeds had anything
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Speaker 1: to do with the moped accident. Much more realistically, the
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Speaker 1: nosebleeds were from her body adjusting to the weather in
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Speaker 1: Scotland Vietnam. It was a very hot environment and Scotland
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Speaker 1: was very cold, and so that shift was likely causing
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Speaker 1: these nosebleeds. And so the doctor recommended that Angela put
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Speaker 1: some basiline inside of her nostrils to keep it moist
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Speaker 1: and just wait for this to clear up as her
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Speaker 1: body transitioned back to Scotland. A few days later, Angela
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Speaker 1: was back home inside of her bathroom, looking into a mirror.
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Speaker 1: She was applying some basoline to her nostrils. Now, she
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Speaker 1: had been doing this every day, multiple times a day,
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Speaker 1: since the doctor had made that recommendation. But despite following
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Speaker 1: the doctor's orders, her nosebleeds had persisted. If anything, they
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Speaker 1: were getting worse. I mean, she was having these things
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Speaker 1: multiple times a day. But for now, Angela simply turned
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Speaker 1: on her shower and waited for the water to warm up,
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Speaker 1: and then she hopped inside and after a few minutes
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Speaker 1: of just kind of standing under the water, Angela began
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Speaker 1: just kind of touching her nose, something she was doing
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Speaker 1: a lot of, you know, since these nosebleeds had begun,
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Speaker 1: except as she touched her nose, she began to feel
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Speaker 1: something weird, sort of deep inside of her nostril that
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Speaker 1: she maybe hadn't noticed before. And at some point she
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Speaker 1: actually pushed pretty hard on whatever this was inside of
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Speaker 1: her nasal cavity, and when she did that, it sent
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Speaker 1: this blinding wave of pain over her. And then simultaneously,
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Speaker 1: blood began pouring out of her nose and she couldn't
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Speaker 1: get it to stop. It was like this flood of
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Speaker 1: just constant bleeding, and it terrified Angela. I mean, she'd
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Speaker 1: had these terrible nosebleeds, but this was the worst one
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Speaker 1: and it was clearly connected to something inside of her nose.
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Speaker 1: And so she's starting to panic. Bloods getting out everywhere,
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Speaker 1: and she's thinking, this has gotta be connected to that
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Speaker 1: mopeed accident. Maybe I have some horrible brain injury, maybe
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Speaker 1: I'm dying here, and so in a panic, she jumps
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Speaker 1: out of the shower, towels off, gets dressed, and rushes
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Speaker 1: to the nearest hospital. When Angela got to the emergency room,
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Speaker 1: a nurse quickly brought her into an exam room and
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Speaker 1: had her sit down and tilt her head back so
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Speaker 1: the nurse could look into her nostrils.
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Speaker 2: To see what was going on.
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Speaker 1: And so Angela she's got all this gauze to kind
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Speaker 1: of trap the blood, and she's got her head way
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Speaker 1: back and she's letting the nurse do this exam. And
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Speaker 1: after a while, Angela starts to realize that this exam
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Speaker 1: is taking a really long time. The nurse is just
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Speaker 1: kind of standing there, clearly looking at her nostrils, but
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Speaker 1: not saying anything. And you know, from Angela's perspective, she
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Speaker 1: can't really see the nurse her head is tilted too
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Speaker 1: far back. But the silence that's grown in the room
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Speaker 1: is so loud at this point that Angela finally just
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Speaker 1: kind of sits up and looks at the nurse to
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Speaker 1: see what's going on here, and she sees the nurse
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Speaker 1: is kind of frozen, like she's looking at Angela's nostrils
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Speaker 1: like she can't believe what she's scene. And then the
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Speaker 1: nurse kind of snaps out of it and looks at
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Speaker 1: Angela and says, stay calm, I'm gonna get the doctor,
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Speaker 1: and Angela's like, I am calm, what's going on here?
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Speaker 1: But then the nurse just turns around and speed walks
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Speaker 1: out of the room. It would turn out Angela's primary
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Speaker 1: care doctor had been right when he said he didn't
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Speaker 1: think her nose bleeds had anything to do with that
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Speaker 1: moped accident. You know, this was not a brain injury
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Speaker 1: or anything connected to the trauma. However, her nosebleeds were
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Speaker 1: connected to something else she had done while in Vietnam.
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Speaker 1: Because in Vietnam, in between you know, going out to
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Speaker 1: nightclubs and partying and trying all that great food, Angela
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Speaker 1: was also swimming in these local rivers, and at one point,
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Speaker 1: when she was in one of those rivers, something found
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Speaker 1: its way into her nose, a three inch long, bloodsucking leech.
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Speaker 1: It had been living deep inside of Angela's nostril and
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Speaker 1: sinus cavity for over a week, separated from her brain
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Speaker 1: only by this extremely fragile bone that's only about a
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Speaker 1: half millimeter thick. Hospital doctors would spend about thirty minutes
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Speaker 1: painstakingly pulling this leech out of Angela's nose and then
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Speaker 1: once it was out, she would go on to make
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Speaker 1: a full recovery. One morning in February of nineteen eighty seven,
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Speaker 1: a forty five year old woman named Janet Overton stood
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Speaker 1: in front of her bathroom mirror inside of her home
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Speaker 1: in Dana Pointe, California. Janet was a member of the
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Speaker 1: board for the school district that her seventeen year old
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Speaker 1: son attended, and she had a big.
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Speaker 2: Meeting that day.
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Speaker 1: But as she looked at herself in the mirror, she
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Speaker 1: looked terrible. She was pale and exhausted, and she had
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Speaker 1: these big dark circles under her eyes. Now Janet knew
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Speaker 1: why she looked this way. It's because the last couple
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Speaker 1: of days she'd felt really sick, kind of out of nowhere.
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Speaker 1: She'd been all stuffed up, she had bouts of nausea
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Speaker 1: off and on. She wasn't sleeping very well. She figured
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Speaker 1: she just had a bad cold and hoped if she
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Speaker 1: could just kind of muscle her way through it, she
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Speaker 1: could avoid going to the doctor. But now here she
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Speaker 1: was about to have this big school board meeting, still
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Speaker 1: feeling sick, still looking terrible. But instead of kind of
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Speaker 1: canceling her plans and going to the doctor. She just
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Speaker 1: caked on more makeup, did up her hair, and headed
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Speaker 1: out the door. A few weeks later, Janet suddenly woke
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Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night feeling so nauseous
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Speaker 1: that she leaped out of her bed and ran to
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Speaker 1: the bathroom and vomited, and then afterwards she just sat
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Speaker 1: on the ground.
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Speaker 2: Sweating and shaking.
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Speaker 1: So over the last few weeks, Janet's cold had not
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Speaker 1: really gone away. In fact, if anything, it had just
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Speaker 1: gotten progressively worse. Now, Janet had gone to the doctor
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Speaker 1: about it eventually, and the doctor had agreed with her that,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe you do have some really bad cold
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Speaker 1: or some other virus here. But the only thing they
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Speaker 1: told her to do was just you know, rest and
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Speaker 1: stay really well hydrated, and whatever this is, it'll just
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Speaker 1: run its course. And so that's exactly what Janet had
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Speaker 1: been doing over these several weeks, but it hadn't helped,
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Speaker 1: and it's nausea had gotten so bad and so severe
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Speaker 1: that she basically couldn't eat, And then she had also
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Speaker 1: fallen behind on her work for the school board because
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Speaker 1: she was so weak all the time. Janet forced herself
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Speaker 1: to stand up off the bathroom floor then she turned
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Speaker 1: on the sink and began splashing cold water on her face.
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Speaker 1: But as she did that, she noticed something new. She
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Speaker 1: saw there was this red, scaly rash on her arms,
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Speaker 1: and so she stepped back and pulled her sleeves up.
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Speaker 1: Then she saw the rash extended up onto her shoulders
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Speaker 1: and up onto her neck and down her back, and
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Speaker 1: when she touched it, it really hurt. I mean, this
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Speaker 1: is a brand new symptom here, and she could tell
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Speaker 1: it had to be connected to whatever this mystery illness was,
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Speaker 1: and it terrified her, like what was happening to her body?
17:42
Speaker 1: And so she decided that night she had to go
17:44
Speaker 1: to the ar. The next day, Janet laid in a
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Speaker 1: hospital bed with an ivy in her arm and her
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Speaker 1: husband and her son sitting right beside her. She still
17:52
Speaker 1: felt absolutely horrible. She still felt nauseous, she had cold symptoms,
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Speaker 1: and that rash had now spread up to her neck
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Speaker 1: and on her face, and it had begun to blister.
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Speaker 2: All night.
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Speaker 1: The doctors had been running tests on Janet to try
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Speaker 1: to figure out what was going on, but every test
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Speaker 1: they ran came back negative.
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Speaker 2: She didn't have the flu, and she didn't have.
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Speaker 1: At least any known infections or diseases that could cause
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Speaker 1: these symptoms, and so the doctors were at a loss. However,
18:20
Speaker 1: scans of Janet's abdomen did reveal something concrete. She had
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Speaker 1: all these ulcers in her stomach, which basically are like
18:26
Speaker 1: open sores in her stomach lining, and so the doctors
18:29
Speaker 1: told her very likely it was these ulcers that were
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Speaker 1: causing her extreme nausea and making it really hard to eat.
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Speaker 1: But like everything else they were seeing with Janet, they
18:38
Speaker 1: had no idea why she was developing these ulcers in
18:41
Speaker 1: the first place, and so ultimately all the doctors could
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Speaker 1: really do for Janet was just treat her symptoms. They
18:47
Speaker 1: gave her ulcer medication, and they also gave her some
18:50
Speaker 1: topical treatments for her rash, and over the next couple
18:53
Speaker 1: of days, these treatments seemed to work, you know, her
18:55
Speaker 1: ulcers went away, and her rash basically disappeared, and overall
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Speaker 1: she felt a lot better. Not back to one hundred percent,
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Speaker 1: but pretty close to the point where she was discharged.
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Speaker 1: And so Janet and the doctors were like, Okay, we
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Speaker 1: don't really know what this was or why it started.
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Speaker 1: We just hope it never comes back. Several months later,
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Speaker 1: on January twenty fourth, nineteen eighty eight, Janet was at
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Speaker 1: home getting ready for a whale watching trip with her
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Speaker 1: seventeen year old son, and she felt horrible. Ever since
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Speaker 1: leaving the hospital, she had periodically just kept getting sick
19:27
Speaker 1: over and over and over again, and each time she
19:29
Speaker 1: would go back to the hospital and they would just
19:32
Speaker 1: you know, treat her symptoms because no one could figure
19:34
Speaker 1: out what was wrong with her, and then eventually she'd
19:36
Speaker 1: get better and go back home and the cycle would
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Speaker 1: repeat and so. On this particular day, even though Janet
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Speaker 1: felt sick as a dog, she just told herself she
19:45
Speaker 1: was going to push through this and try to have
19:47
Speaker 1: a good day with her son on this whale watching trip.
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Speaker 2: So she put on a ton.
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Speaker 1: Of makeup, she put her hair up, slammed some coffee,
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Speaker 1: and then went downstairs to meet her son. Then the
19:56
Speaker 1: two of them headed outside, walked over to the car,
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Speaker 1: and right as Janet was about to grab the car
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Speaker 1: door handle and get inside, she stood there for a
20:05
Speaker 1: second and then just collapsed. Janet's husband and son immediately
20:09
Speaker 1: rushed Janet to the hospital, but by the time they
20:11
Speaker 1: got there, it was already too late.
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Speaker 2: Janet was dead.
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Speaker 1: Her doctors were obviously baffled, because they had been baffled
20:18
Speaker 1: for months now. Nobody knew what was happening to her,
20:21
Speaker 1: and so ultimately they brought in a corner to do
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Speaker 1: an autopsy to try to figure out once and for
20:26
Speaker 1: all what was going on with Janet. And as soon
20:28
Speaker 1: as the coroner cut open Janet's stomach to examine the contents,
20:32
Speaker 1: he was hit with the smell that was very distinct
20:35
Speaker 1: that instantly told him exactly what had killed Janet. And
20:39
Speaker 1: as soon as he smelled it, he stopped what he
20:41
Speaker 1: was doing and contacted the police, and the police immediately
20:45
Speaker 1: sent detectives to Janet's house and they began gathering up
20:48
Speaker 1: all these items inside the house to be tested, and
20:51
Speaker 1: the results of these tests confirmed the coroner's theory. As
20:54
Speaker 1: Janet got sicker and sicker, she had this mentality of like,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to push through this thing and not go
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Speaker 1: to the doctor.
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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna pretend this isn't even happening.
21:04
Speaker 1: And so when she was caking on all that makeup
21:06
Speaker 1: every day and chugging all this coffee, you know, to
21:08
Speaker 1: combat the tiredness, that was all just an effort to,
21:11
Speaker 1: you know, pretend this wasn't really happening. But what she
21:14
Speaker 1: didn't realize is that the makeup and the coffee were
21:18
Speaker 1: actually killing her. It would turn out there was a
21:21
Speaker 1: deadly chemical in her makeup called selenium that was slowly
21:25
Speaker 1: killing her, and then in her coffee was cyanide. And
21:29
Speaker 1: cyanide has a very distinctive smell. It smells like almins,
21:33
Speaker 1: and that's what the coroner smelled when he opened up
21:35
Speaker 1: her stomach. But these deadly chemicals did not appear in
21:38
Speaker 1: her makeup and coffee naturally. They were put there by
21:42
Speaker 1: Janet's husband. He believed Janet was having an affair, and
21:46
Speaker 1: so we set out to murder her. He first began
21:48
Speaker 1: placing the selenium in her makeup, and it was slowly
21:52
Speaker 1: killing Janet, but it was not happening fast enough, and
21:55
Speaker 1: so finally, on the day of the whale watching trip,
21:58
Speaker 1: her husband put the cyanide in her and it killed
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22:03
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